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Unnati
Unnati

Reputation: 2457

Automatically open Intent Chooser for the file Android

I want to open a file in android. What i want to do is if the file is of type Image then i want to open Intent Chooser which contains applications that can view the image, and if it is of video type, then open Intent Chooser with applications that can view videos. How can i achieve this?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5428

Answers (2)

Unnati
Unnati

Reputation: 2457

I have found a solution. I am pasting it here so it may help other users.

    Intent intent = new Intent();
    intent.setAction(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    File file = new File(path);

    MimeTypeMap mime = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton();
    String ext = file.getName().substring(file.getName().lastIndexOf(".") + 1);
    String type = mime.getMimeTypeFromExtension(ext);

    intent.setDataAndType(Uri.fromFile(file), type);

    context.startActivity(intent);

Upvotes: 15

tasomaniac
tasomaniac

Reputation: 10342

You should decide and know whether the file is video or image. You may do it by looking at the extension of the files.

After that you can open videos like this:

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    intent.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(result), "video/*");
startActivity(intent);

and images like this:

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    intent.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(result), "image/*");
startActivity(intent);

Android system will open the Intent Chooser automatically.

Upvotes: 1

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